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Lädt ... The Last Days of Pekinvon Pierre Loti
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Peking, the heart of the ancient empire of China, was on its back in the year 1900, occupied by the foreign powers in the aftermath of the Boxer Rebellion, and at the mercy of looters and exploiters. Pierre Loti, one of the most famous French writers of theage, spent nearly a year there with the French expeditionary force, and left in this book, The Last Days of Peking, an extraordinary account of the city at its moment of crisis. The writing reflects China and its culture, and the conflicting attitudes of Westerners towards the country - a weird mixture of sinophilia and sinophobia. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Loti's vision of China is an extraordinary depiction seemingly made through a cloud of opium while languorously lounging on the yellow silk cushions of Empress Dowager Cixi.
It is not absent of the biases of his time but leaves a lasting impression as Loti's sensitivity makes him perceive as this journey progresses, the true nature of Chinese art while making him face his own ignorance.
While flesh eating dogs roam the chilly and dusty streets, Loti shivers at the scenes of so much destruction and barbarism and you shiver with the author accompanying him through this apocalyptic journey narrative as a member of the Eight-Nation Alliance that included Japan, Russia, the British Empire, France, the United States, Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary. The objective was to relieve the Siege of the Foreign Legations.
Like Arthur Judson Brown, Loti meets with the survivors of the Siege of the Beitang including Lazarite Vicar Apostolic of Northern Chi-Li: Favier-Duperron.
The main character of the book is Loti himself on a naval and diplomatic liaison mission which gives him a wonderful pretext to hauntingly describe the forbidden city. ( )